Bitcoin price suddenly surges to 3-year high

sepheronx · Feb 8, 2021

downloaded nicehash and trying to set it up. Its going to crap.

I login after downloading the application and it just takes me to the site and a big red couldn't complete re-quest.

Chomiq · Feb 8, 2021

P4-630 said:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has purchased bitcoins for $ 1.5 billion. The price of the cryptocurrency soared to a record above $ 42,000 on Monday.

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Pump & dump.

dgianstefani · Feb 8, 2021

Maybe, we'll see.

trog100 · Feb 8, 2021

elon wont be the only one.. the impetuous to drive bitcoin up to 200k or more has to come from somewhere..

trog

dragontamer5788 · Feb 8, 2021

Chomiq said:
Pump & dump.

Musk has demonstrated extreme skills in pump-and-dumping his Tesla shares. Every pump of TSLA has coincided with millions of TSLA shares being sold to the public. And I don't think its illegal, at least by standard US law.

For better or worse, Musk is really good at pump and dump and avoiding the legal issues associated with it. Buying BTC last month, and then telling everyone this month that he's bought BTC under TSLA's name is just a continuation of Musk's savviness.

Space Lynx · Feb 8, 2021

ppn said:
Video cards never more, gone, 0 in stock after what Tesla did. Needs to die quick with a driver patch or something. If by the time of 40 series mining on GPU is still a thing, just turn the planet into mars it's hopeless, i don't care anymore.

yep. so glad i got my 5600x and 6800 at msrp. graphics cards are gone forever now at least for us common folk making 12-14 an hr. unless crypto gets banned. i may be one of the last next gen PC gamers lmao. driver patch wouldn't do anything, the miners would just use the old driver or make their own. too much money is involved.

not to mention Tesla now allowing bitcoin to buy a tesla is extremely ironic, erases all benefits of a green electric car. lmao

Caring1 · Feb 9, 2021

lynx29 said:
green electric car. lmao

"green" electric car, is an oxymoron.
Nothing green about them.

P4-630 · Feb 9, 2021

Lithium Batteries' Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves Massive Carbon Footprint. Once in operation, electric cars certainly reduce your carbon footprint, but making the lithium-ion batteries could emit 74% more CO2 than for conventional cars.

R-T-B · Feb 9, 2021

P4-630 said:
Lithium Batteries' Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves Massive Carbon Footprint. Once in operation, electric cars certainly reduce your carbon footprint, but making the lithium-ion batteries could emit 74% more CO2 than for conventional cars.

That's because conventional cars use lead-acid batteries, which emit very little co2 in manufacture, but are fucking toxic because they are made of lead and uh... acid. That, and I'm fairly certain the electric cars make up for that manufacturing CO2 difference several times over in their usage lifetime.

Unsure what this has to do with bitcoin though...

Aquinus · Feb 9, 2021

Chomiq said:
Pump & dump.

Elon knows this oh so well and he takes advantage of it like anyone else.

NYTimes said:
“The stock market is a strange thing,” Mr. Musk said in an interview with Business Insider in December. “It’s like having a manic depressive who’s constantly telling you how much your company’s worth. And sometimes they have a good day, and sometimes they have a bad day, but the company is basically the same. The public markets are crazy.”

Elon Musk Becomes Unlikely Anti-Establishment Hero in GameStop Saga (Published 2021)

The billionaire has inserted himself into the confounding stock market drama and solidified his role as the ultimate insider outsider.

www.nytimes.com

phill · Feb 9, 2021

R-T-B said:
That's because conventional cars use lead-acid batteries, which emit very little co2 in manufacture, but are fucking toxic because they are made of lead and uh... acid. That, and I'm fairly certain the electric cars make up for that manufacturing CO2 difference several times over in their usage lifetime.

Unsure what this has to do with bitcoin though...

Maybe they are going to be given away with a new Tesla? Each purchase, free bitcoin?! :confused:

Anyways, to anyone who is mining and such, how is everything going for you?

P4-630 · Feb 9, 2021

R-T-B said:
Unsure what this has to do with bitcoin though...

Sorry about that though....

Ok carry on

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Bitcoin price suddenly surges to 3-year high

trog100 · Feb 9, 2021

phill said:
Maybe they are going to be given away with a new Tesla? Each purchase, free bitcoin?!

Anyways, to anyone who is mining and such, how is everything going for you?

fine but i am using left over hardware from the first time around.. gpu shortages must be having an effect on etherium mining in general.. probably good for those that have the hardware not so good for those that dont..

trog

sepheronx · Feb 9, 2021

so I am only getting like 51MH/s when mining with my ASUS Dual RTX 3070 OC.

I see that the memory is only running at 6500 rather than 7000 like when I am gaming. Temperatures are good, 65C. Quiet. 190W average.

So I am gonna reduce power and increase memory speeds to try to get that MH/s up and power usage down.

Any suggestions?

trog100 · Feb 9, 2021

sepheronx said:
so I am only getting like 51MH/s when mining with my ASUS Dual RTX 3070 OC.

I see that the memory is only running at 6500 rather than 7000 like when I am gaming. Temperatures are good, 65C. Quiet. 190W average.

So I am gonna reduce power and increase memory speeds to try to get that MH/s up and power usage down.

Any suggestions?

nope.. carry on as your are..

trog

Caring1 · Feb 9, 2021

sepheronx said:
so I am only getting like 51MH/s when mining with my ASUS Dual RTX 3070 OC.

I see that the memory is only running at 6500 rather than 7000 like when I am gaming. Temperatures are good, 65C. Quiet. 190W average.

So I am gonna reduce power and increase memory speeds to try to get that MH/s up and power usage down.

Any suggestions?

Does it have a mining Bios or stock?

R-T-B · Feb 9, 2021

Caring1 said:
Does it have a mining Bios or stock?

It's nvidia ampere. I don't think there is any such thing as a "mining bios." The most he might (?) be able to do is some crossflash crap.

sepheronx · Feb 9, 2021

Caring1 said:
Does it have a mining Bios or stock?

Stock. I refuse to do mining bios as I don't want to brick anything.

Since started mining, this thing is nonsense. I gained almost nothing while I was at work for 8 hours because now nicehash site says mining is down. Really? It seems to still be running but so far I cant see anything to prove that I made much money at all. I got "current profitability" but thats it.

I dont really understand this thing tbh.

kayjay010101 · Feb 9, 2021

Caring1 said:
Does it have a mining Bios or stock?

Yeah no such thing for Ampere and I wouldn't bother either if there were

sepheronx said:
Stock. I refuse to do mining bios as I don't want to brick anything.

Since started mining, this thing is nonsense. I gained almost nothing while I was at work for 8 hours because now nicehash site says mining is down. Really? It seems to still be running but so far I cant see anything to prove that I made much money at all. I got "current profitability" but thats it.

I dont really understand this thing tbh.

Nicehash's site after the Tesla news has crapped out completely. You're still earning according to them, it's just not viewable at the moment. You'll have to wait for them to fix their shitty site.

sepheronx · Feb 9, 2021

kayjay010101 said:
Yeah no such thing for Ampere and I wouldn't bother either if there were

Nicehash's site after the Tesla news has crapped out completely. You're still earning according to them, it's just not viewable at the moment. You'll have to wait for them to fix their shitty site.

Ok, thanks for the info. I can see how it is still mining.

Now, I managed to reduce wattage from 190W to 125W by reducing power usage to 53%. I also increased memory clock to about 1200.

I'm worried though I may be stressing the vram. Which application works to monitor vram temps? So far GPU temp is only 56C.

MSU afterburner doesn't show anything for GPU memory temps, and neither does gpuz it seems nor can I find it in hwinfo.

kayjay010101 · Feb 9, 2021

sepheronx said:
Ok, thanks for the info. I can see how it is still mining.

Now, I managed to reduce wattage from 190W to 125W by reducing power usage to 53%. I also increased memory clock to about 1200.

I'm worried though I may be stressing the vram. Which application works to monitor vram temps? So far GPU temp is only 56C.

MSU afterburner doesn't show anything for GPU memory temps, and neither does gpuz it seems nor can I find it in hwinfo.

The 3070 uses GDDR6 which I don't think has overheating issues. As long as it's power limited it should be fine. I run a 130W PL with a +1100 MEM and -500 core OC on my 3070.
HWInfo just recently got a GDDR6X sensor, don't know whether there is one for GDDR6 on NVIDIA cards :/

sepheronx · Feb 9, 2021

kayjay010101 said:
The 3070 uses GDDR6 which I don't think has overheating issues. As long as it's power limited it should be fine. I run a 130W PL with a +1100 MEM and -500 core OC on my 3070.
HWInfo just recently got a GDDR6X sensor, don't know whether there is one for GDDR6 on NVIDIA cards :/

tried latest of HWINFO and no go, cant find anything showing sensors for memory for the gpu.

Hmm, I am getting a lot of incorrect ETH Share from GPU0.

-200 on core clock, +1200 for memory and 60% power limit.

trog100 · Feb 9, 2021

i dont think its a good idea to run your memory right on the edge.. try dropping it to +1000 or a bit less

trog

sepheronx · Feb 9, 2021

trog100 said:
i dont think its a good idea to run your memory right on the edge.. try dropping it to +1000 or a bit less

trog

dropped it to 1000

using also t-rex and i noticed my profit per day has dropped from 8.30 to 7.30

To be honest, I may just cancel doing mining. Not only do I not feel comfortable cause I am worried about ruining the GPU (having it develop artifacts later on), but even with a mild OC and what not, I am getting failed jobs. I figure my card isn't a good sample thus very limited.

trog100 · Feb 9, 2021

sepheronx said:
dropped it to 1000

using also t-rex and i noticed my profit per day has dropped from 8.30 to 7.30

To be honest, I may just cancel doing mining. Not only do I not feel comfortable cause I am worried about ruining the GPU (having it develop artifacts later on), but even with a mild OC and what not, I am getting failed jobs. I figure my card isn't a good sample thus very limited.

i run 1 x 2080ti plus an 8 x 1070 mining rig.. the pair of them are now showing around 260 H/hs or 40 dollars per day.. $280 per week or 1120 per month..

this has gone up by a factor of five over the last six weeks since i started mining again... the mining rig has had about 14 months of 24/7 running with a three year rest in between..

i recon your 3070 will generate roughly the same as my 2080ti.. 55 m/hs or so..

would i bother with mining if i just had the one 2080ti machine.. probably not but its hard to say..

failed jobs isnt your card its at the server end.. nothing to do with you..

trog

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